“Year of the Dragon” quotes

Plot – Following the murder of the local underworld leader Jackie Wong, police captain and Vietnam veteran Stanley White is appointed to investigate a series of crimes committed in New York's Chinatown and attributed to gangs of young criminals. Still resentful for the American failure in Asia and still full of indiscriminate and visceral hatred towards the "slanty eyes", White agrees to thoroughly clean the neighborhood, no holds barred. He believes he can make use of the help of beautiful and daring television journalist Tracy Tzu, daughter of a Sino-Dutch couple, and therefore half "yellow", who, on the other hand, claims the independence of her profession.

“The first time I saw you, I hated your guts. I think I even hated you before I met you. I hated you on TV. I hated you in Vietnam. You want to know what's destroying this country? It's not booze. It's not drugs. It's TV. It's media. It's people like you.”

“I hate the way you make your living sticking microphones in people's faces. You lie every night at 6:00. I hate the way you kill real feelings. I hate everything that you stand for. Most of all, I haterichkids and I hate this place. So why do I want to fuck you so bad?”

“- Tracy Tzu: Do you think this killing means there's some kind of war going on in the Chinatown Tongs?- William McKenna: No, I don't. This is basically a situation where the youth gangs are lashing out at the establishment. The community is cooperating. The situation's under control.”